Re: “GOP: Break up with Obama[1],” Oct. 25 guest commentary (part of point-counterpoint asking, “Which political party is better for women?”).

Debbie Brown believes that women do not need to worry if the Affordable Care Act is repealed with a Mitt Romney election. She states the Republicans will just put in a better health care plan. Does she think that will happen the next day? How about never? Despite a great deal of rhetoric and grandstanding, a comprehensive health care program has never been a serious proposition of the Republican Party. If it had been, it would have been a priority in the eight-year Bush administration. By repealing the Affordable Care Act, we will return to health care policies that undermine the care and protection of both women and children. Maternity care will once again be denied if it is determined to be a pre-existing condition.

This is from the family-friendly party that promotes marriage and motherhood? Oh, wait — no need to worry. We all be awash in money once Romney gets his economic plan rolling, and we will easily pay our medical bills.

Renee Farrar, Lakewood

This letter was published in the Oct. 30 edition.

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No one was interested in a comprehensive health care policy, not even President Obama. President Obama helped to pass a policy that would eventually lead to single payer health care. If the Democrats really wanted a good bill, they wouldn’t have given us a 2,000 plus, bureaucratically laden mandate that most of our country didn’t want and that did not include any input from Republicans. Yes, there will be a replacement bill put forward. My hope is that calmer minds will prevail and there will be several smaller bills addressing specific areas like Congress should have done the first time.

……..neither did we have, for much of our country’s history, One-Trillion-Dollar Annual Deficits, a $16 Trillion National Debt that is Growing by One Trillion Dollars a year for the Next 8 Years…..at least.

Our country is $16 Trillion in DEBT……a DEBT that WILL rise to at least $20 Trillion by 2016 and %5 Trillion by 2020…..unless we need to borrow even MORE money every year to “fully fund” Obamacare when it finally fully kicks in in the next couple of years……(reports of $2 Trillion Annual Deficits are NOT “unheard of”)…….

#3 Comment By Anonymous On October 30, 2012 @ 2:11 am

The Problem is, of course, that “whatever” comes about (unless it is a FULL REPEAL of anything and everything that costs The Government “money” it doesn’t have); the Problem is “finding a way to pay for it” without adding to the Annual Deficits and the National Debt.

The US simply cannot continue to “borrow” money as if it grows on trees and as if there is an endless supply and as if we have no moral obligation to ever pay off those loans.

#4 Comment By Anonymous On October 30, 2012 @ 5:00 pm

“We all be awash in money once Romney gets his economic plan rolling, and we will easily pay our medical bills.”

Oh, you’re looking to “easily pay” for stuff you want and need. And I want my house to cost 50 bucks a month. That would be pretty “easily” paid. Imagine how much health insurance I could buy then.

Yeah, it would be great if we all could “easily pay” our bills. It would also be great if all the lights were green, pepperoni pizza didn’t have too many calories, and we could stick a hide fade into a well-bunkered green for an easy birdie putt.

Stuff costs what it costs. There are measures that could lower those costs — more competition in the insurance market, keeping relatively more of your money and using that buying power to shape the market to your benefit, tort reform, etc. But mostly we do what we’ve done in other avenues of life: prioritze our needs and budget accordingly.

Or at least we used to before the do-gooder left began convincing too many of us that we’re victims of our circumstances and unable to negotiate the minefield of life without kindly ol’ Uncle Sam’s guiding hand.

#5 Comment By Kevis On November 1, 2012 @ 1:48 pm

They need to repeal this “Obamanation” and put in place individual reforms that address issues with healthcare. In this way they are severable and not part of some arcane, 2,700 page economy throttling monstrosity.

For example, pre-existing conditions would not be a bar to getting insurance, though some portional surcharge might be put in place for reasonable increase in costs borne by the insurance company to treat the condition. IE, with diabetes the patient will need foreseeable care specifically for that illness, for life. Companies would go bankrupt if they couldn’t cover the cost somehow, and if you were paying $120/month vs $100/month for coverage under that circumstance its not unreasonable (numbers for example, generally coverage is several hundred a month if you are not on a plan where an employer is paying part or all of the cost).